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A television advertisement for Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut breakfast cereal. The following lines, a pastiche of John of Gaunt’s speech in Richard II, are read over Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1...
US television advertisement for ‘post toasties’ . ‘The Thinker’ [the Rodin sculture], Shakespeare, and Napoleon all break stereotypical poses and reveal Toasties as "the serious breakfast food".
Political advertisement. One in a series of commercials in the ‘Stevenson for President’ campaign that featured actual and fictional people voting for Adlai Stevenson in the 1956 American Presidential...
Television advertisement for Barclay’s Bank made as part of the company’s Fluent in Finance campaign. Samuel L. Jackson recites some lines, an approximation of The Comedy of Errors (I, ii l260) `Upon my...
Advertisement for Bell Atlantic. Theatre-goers are going to see James Earl Jones as Othello. As they take their seats Othello is seen on stage, back to the audience, wearing a large Darth Vader-like cloak....
Television advertisement for a McDonald’s chicken flatbread sandwich. Romeo is about to leave the balcony when Juliet, holding a telescope, notices that he has a sandwich in his bag. She leaves the balcony...
Advertisement. A line drawing cartoon shows William Shakespeare taking a drink from a can of Red Bull as he fluently composes lines for his latest play Hamlet, then running out of inspiration when a maid...
In a campaign to promote its new 3008 Crossover car, Peugeot-sponsored TV advertisement series ‘Casting Tape’ is based on the concept of a director conducting a casting session for Peugeot. In this clip,...
An advertisement for Heinz Tomato Ketchup. An actor playing Hamlet in a modernised version of Elizabethan dress holds Yorick’s skull and delivers the ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy in a portentous and...
Television advertisement for ING Financial Services. "The commercial opens with a long shot of a young white woman sitting on a bench in the park with ING on it as a young Asian man comes up to her and asks...